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The Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking at Bard combines the digitized Hannah Arendt Archive with Bard’s Hannah Arendt Library. It is on the foundation of Bard’s unique scholarly resources, its rich personal connection with Hannah Arendt (indeed, she is buried on campus), and Bard’s tradition of engaged interdisciplinary scholarship that the Center is building a unique space to pursue Arendt’s vision of returning thinking to politics.
The mission of the Center is to foster thinking about problems and crises that reflect the insight and independence that Hannah Arendt brought to bear on political and ethical themes from anti-Semitism and totalitarianism to thoughtless consumerism and lying in politics. On the major issues of our time—from terror and torture to dissent and the environment—the Arendt Center will bring established public intellectuals and young fellows to Bard to try to, as Arendt would have it, comprehend these events. The effort is not to divine what Hannah Arendt would do or say; instead, it is to take Arendt’s singular and much needed approach to political questions as a spur to rigorous, daring, and creative engagement. [More]
Announcements
"Human Being in an Inhuman Age"
SAVE THE Date for the Third Annual Arendt Center Conference on October 22-23, 2010
SAVE THE DATE!
October 22-23, 2010
More information to come.
Lecture by Jacqueline Stevens
"The US Government is Illegally Deporting US Citizens"
February 2, 2010 at 7pm in Olin 102.
February 2, 2010 at 7pm in Olin 102.
co-sponsored with Human Rights Project
2010-2011 Fellowship competition
Applications due February 28, 2010
Website: http://www.bard.edu/institutes/arendtcenter/fellows/
Margarethe von Trotta: Going Steady. Making Films.
 Lecture and Panel Discussion December 4-5, 2009
Margarethe von Trotta discusses her films and also her current project, a movie about Hannah Arendt.
December 4
Going Steady. Making Films.
Rober Boyers interviews director Margarethe von Trotta
5:30 Avery Theater, Avery Arts Center
December 5
Filming Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt
Panel Discussion with:
Margarethe von Trotta, Pamela Katz, Leon Botstein, Norman Manea, and Roger Berkowitz
10:30 Weis Cinema, Campus Center
Website: http://cms.skidmore.edu/salmagundi/
Purchase Thinking in Dark Times
 Website: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Dark-Times-Hannah-Politics/dp/0823230767/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&q
Arendt Fellows Roundtable
Come hear the 2009-2010 Arendt Center Fellows present their work. Hannah Arendt In-Between Architecture and Tragedy
Hans Teerds "Architecture and its meaning from an Arendtian point of view"
Eveline Cioflec "Towards an understanding of Political Situations: The Worldly In-Between of Human Beings" Silvia Zappulla "The legacy of Antigone on the political thought of Hannah Arendt.”
Book Publication Reading and Celebration
 Come to a Celebration of the Arendt Center's new collection at Book Culture, the best remaining independent bookseller in Manhattan.
Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
Come to a Celebration of the Arendt Center's new collection at Book Culture, the best remaining independent bookseller in Manhattan.
Speakers include Thomas Keenan, George Kateb, Roger Berkowitz.
Thursday, Nov. 12
536 W 112th St (b/w Broadway and Columbus)
7pm
Website: http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/community/eventcal.html?sid=6665
NY Times Coverage
LETTER FROM AMERICA
Imperialism, Goldman Sachs Style
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN Published: October 22, 2009 Hannah Arendt’s main concern was understanding the evils of Nazism and Communism, but her writings on imperialism are eerily applicable to the financial crisis. Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22iht-letter.html
Burden of Our Times:
 The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis
Conference October 17, 2009
Website: http://www.bard.edu/burdenofourtimes/
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